It is very true that I have said that I considered Napoleon's presence in the field equal to forty thousand men in the balance. This is a very loose way of talking; but the idea is a very different one from that of his presence at a battle being equal to a reinforcement of forty thousand men.

I am not only not prepared to bring forward any measure of this nature, but I will at once declare that, as far as I am concerned, as long as I hold any station in the Government of the country, I shall always feel it my duty to resist such measures when proposed by others.

Call on a business man only at business times, and on business; transact your business, and go about your business, in order to give him time to finish his business.

Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.

My heart is broken by the terrible loss I have sustained in my old friends and companions and my poor soldiers. Believe me, nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.

To define it rudely but not ineptly, engineering is the art of doing for 10 shillings what any fool can do for a pound

I have got an infamous army, very weak and ill-equipped, and a very inexperienced staff.